On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, members of the local Jewish community said Wednesday that recent acts of anti-Semitism show hate remains ...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year feels a bit like a precipice; a two-way mirror. On one side, a history we must vow to never forget and never ...
Today, we commemorate the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a day designated by the United Nations in 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance ...
The Biden administration on Wednesday paused US arms sales to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia -- one of several moves to address Trump-era ...
Washington (CNN) The Biden administration has paused arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as it conducts a wider review of agreements ...
The White House has temporarily stopped arms deals negotiated under the Trump administration with several Middle Eastern nations, including the United Arab ...
Тhe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is used to getting the benefit of the doubt in Washington, D.C. By virtue of its heft in the global oil market and its 75-year strategic ...
The Biden administration is reviewing billions of dollars in weapons transactions approved by former President Donald Trump, according to U.S. officials.
LONDON — After Prime Minister Boris Johnson said his government had truly done "everything we could" to save the 100,000 lives taken by the coronavirus so ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson put England on notice that the national virus lockdown will continue for at least another six weeks, with schools staying closed and ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic underlined the benefits of being part of the United Kingdom as he prepares to visit ...
England's coronavirus lockdown is set to be extended for at least three more weeks, with schools not reopening until the second week of March at the earliest, ...
China has added restrictions, offered incentives and appealed to a sense of filial and national responsibility, in an effort to prevent about 300 million migrant ...
China has administered about 22.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, a health official said on Wednesday, as the country steps up its campaign ahead of next ...
BEIJING (AP) — Efforts to dissuade Chinese from traveling for Lunar New Year appeared to be working as Beijing's main train station was largely quiet and ...
BEIJING (AP) — Efforts to dissuade Chinese from traveling for Lunar New Year appeared to be working as Beijing's main train station was largely quiet and ...
As the global number of coronavirus cases passed 100 million — a quarter of them in the United States — an increasingly acrimonious battle between the ...
A war of words between the European Union and AstraZeneca escalated on Wednesday as the two sides argued in public over coronavirus vaccine delays that ...
Europe was not prepared for the pandemic, but it must now learn lessons and use all its financial and political resources, says Guntram Wolff, director of the ...
President Obama's former speechwriter says he's "preemptively frustrated" with President Biden's effort to find unity with Republicans.What they're saying: Cody ...
WASHINGTON — When President Biden swore in a batch of recruits for his new administration in a teleconferenced ceremony late last week, it looked like the ...
Over the past week, a growing number of Republicans began sounding the alarm about the number and *content* of executive orders being issued by President ...
In his first news conference since being confirmed as secretary of State, Antony Blinken expressed "deep concern" over the treatment of Alexei Navalny and the ...
Congressional Republicans quietly grumbled for four years that former President Donald Trump's passive rhetoric about Russia didn't match the severity of his ...
Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader who returned to Russia last week after recovering in Berlin from an attempt on his life involving a military nerve agent, ...
Putin is an aggressive cancer requiring decisive intervention. After years of bashing Trump's devotion to him, time for Biden and Democrats to deliver.
NEW DELHI (AP) — A sea of tens of thousands of farmers riding tractors and horses stormed India's historic Red Fort this week — a dramatic escalation of their ...
A line of tractors stood ready at dawn on Tuesday to move out of a protest site near New Delhi where thousands of farmers had been camping for the last two ...
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam told CNBC she's "optimistic" the new U.S. administration will give her government "a fair hearing" with regards to the city's ...
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam endorsed a stronger presence for HSBC Holdings Plc while hitting out at the U.K. for both disparaging the bank and failing to ...
The persistence of one vocal group provides Beijing with an argument that the city continues to be an intermediary between China and the democratic world.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that she doubts the U.S. will return to normal after 100 days of the ...
"This is a national emergency. Four hundred thousand people have died. Everything is on the table across the whole supply chain," said Jeffrey Zients, the White ...
(CNN) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it does not know if the new Covid-19 variants are causing more cases of a rare ...
Recent confrontational action by China toward regional rivals Taiwan and India are examples of the Communist regime in Beijing challenging the new American ...
The Philippines has protested a new Chinese law that authorizes its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels and destroy other countries' structures on islands it ...
Over the weekend, China sent large numbers of military aircraft into the southwestern portion of the Taiwan air defense identification zone, near the strategic ...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken tried to reset the U.S. government's relationship with the news media on his first full day in office, calling an independent press ...
Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano on Java island erupted on Wednesday, sending up a cloud of ash and prompting authorities to warn of the ...
Mount Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano, erupted Wednesday, emitting a river of lava onto the mountain below and gas clouds into the sky. The eruption ...
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's most active volcano erupted Wednesday with a river of lava and searing gas clouds flowing 3000 meters (nearly ...
Tim Zook's last post on Facebook brimmed with optimism. “Never been so excited to get a shot before,” he wrote on Jan. 5, above a photo of the Band-Aid on his ...
The US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which is manufacturing the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Germany's BioNTech, now considers each vial contains six ...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is projecting as many as 90000 Americans will die from the coronavirus in the next four weeks. That warning came ...
The Los Angeles Times' fawning coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris has been labeled “inappropriate and disappointing” by critics, some comparing it to ...
Meena Harris, the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris, said that growing up she was taught that ambition was a "good thing" and explained why family is the ...
While President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are getting adjusted to their new digs in Washington, D.C.—Biden at the White House, and Harris ...
Raleigh, N.C. — Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday is expected to extend a nightly curfew, a moratorium on evictions and rules allowing restaurants and bars to ...
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's modified stay-at-home order will continue until at least the end of February. Gov. Roy Cooper most recently extended the ...
Gov. Cooper is extending the modified Stay-At-Home order until Feb. 28 and plans to keep the eviction moratorium and order allowing to-go mixed drinks in ...
Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday extended a nightly curfew, a moratorium on evictions and rules allowing restaurants and bars to serve mixed drinks to go as ...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A group of U.N experts has criticized Sri Lanka's requirement that those who die of COVID-19 be cremated, even it goes against a ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's West Bank settler population has grown at a far higher rate than the country as a whole over the last four years, a pro-settler group ...
China, along with the rest of the world, is continuing to fight against the spread of the coronavirus, so the country has introduced a new way of detecting the virus.
SEOUL — Months-long lockdowns. Entire city populations herded through the streets for mandatory testing. The people of China could be forgiven for thinking ...
China reported its lowest daily increase in new COVID-19 cases in nearly three weeks on Thursday, suggesting aggressive countermeasures have helped slow ...
Last week, as the more contagious coronavirus variant began to spread within the Netherlands, the government announced a strict lockdown, including a ...
Mass Covid-19 vaccination programs are underway in many countries around the world, offering the first glimmer of hope that life as we knew it could be back ...
On President Biden's first day in office, he signed several executive actions into law, including an order to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement and halt the ...
While welcoming Malka Leifer's transfer to Australia, activists say a wider problem highlighted by a CBS News investigation still needs to be addressed.
MELBOURNE: A former teacher extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court Thursday to face child sex abuse charges.
A Jewish charity will offer chaplaincy services to alleged paedophile Malka Leifer when she returns to Australia, a decision that has angered some members of ...
MELBOURNE, Australia — A former teacher extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court Thursday to face child sex abuse ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — As he seeks reelection, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has turned to a straightforward strategy: Count on the rock-solid ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Tuesday it is close to granting approval for Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, with lots of spy drama but little public data ...
When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced on Sunday that he had tested positive for covid-19, he joined a long list of world leaders ...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took a commercial flight hours before announcing he tested positive for COVID-19 last week, raising concerns ...
Hundreds of Tunisians are protesting outside parliament as lawmakers prepare to vote on a new government following a week of protests over poverty and a ...
Tunisian lawmakers approved cabinet changes proposed by Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi after riot police blocked protesters from nearing the assembly ...
ByteDance is reducing the size of its TikTok team in India, months after the popular short video app remains banned in one of its most important markets.
Hong Kong (CNN Business) TikTok has been forced to lay off some of its workers in India as the country doubles down on what was already a monthslong ban ...
ByteDance Ltd.'s revenue more than doubled to about $35 billion last year, defying heightened global competition and Trump's attempt to ban its signature video ...
Fifty-three people are dead and 29 seriously injured following a collision Wednesday between a bus and a truck containing flammable liquid in West Cameroon.
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro delivered a profanity-laced attack on the media Wednesday after reports that his administration spent $3 ...
President Jair Bolsonaro and his top economic chiefs warned against more fiscal stimulus this year although his economy minister acknowledged it could be ...
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime China skeptic, thanked Beijing on Monday for rapidly approving the export of active ingredients for local COVID-19 ...
Saudi authorities said they had arrested seven businessmen and 12 bank employees for a scheme that involved transferring 11.6 billion riyals ($3.1 billion) of ...
BRUSSELS — Frontex, the European Union agency responsible for monitoring the bloc's external borders, announced on Wednesday that it was suspending ...
The European Union's border control agency is suspending operations in Hungary after the government in Budapest did not comply with a ruling by Europe's ...
The move, which comes as Britain is swamped by a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus, will require British citizens arriving from 22 high-risk countries to ...
British people arriving home from 22 "high risk" countries will have to undergo a 10-day hotel quarantine at their own expense, as the UK tightens border ...
New Delhi — An Indian court has ruled that groping a child cannot be deemed sexual assault as long as there is no "skin-to-skin contact" or "sexual intent.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has fired the heads of the country's armed forces whom he appointed when he first took office in 2015. In a surprise ...
Rear Admiral AZ Gambo, Air-Vice Marshal IO Amao, Maj-Gen. I Attahiru and LEO Irabor, di Nigerian new *Service* Chiefs hold dia first meeting with President ...
Buhari new *Service* Chiefs; Lucky Irabor, Ibrahim Attahiru, Ishiaka Amao, Awwal Gambo na di tear rubber heads of di Nigerian Armed Forces but wetin dey dia ...
Manaus (Brazil) (AFP). With more than 3,000 burials in January alone, the Amazon rainforest city of Manaus does not remember a deadlier month. Its cemetery ...
A coronavirus variant from Manaus in northern Brazil, first detected in Japan in January, is now the dominant form of the virus in the hard-hit city, a local ...
Sao Paulo (CNN) A Brazilian court has approved an investigation into Heath Minister Eduardo Pazuello's handling of the Covid-19 crisis, after oxygen shortages ...
Violent protests have erupted in the Netherlands for the third night in a row, with rioters setting fires and clashing with police in defiance of strict coronavirus ...
More than 180 people were arrested Monday during the third night of violence in the Netherlands, where rioters appear to have hijacked an anti-lockdown ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch justice minister said Tuesday that people arrested amid three nights of rioting sparked by the country's coronavirus ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police took to the streets of Dutch towns and cities in force Tuesday night in an attempt to prevent violent rioting that shook the ...
Almost one in three Americans say the Covid-19 pandemic has made their religious faith stronger, a significantly higher proportion of people than in other ...
A Lenawee County man has filed a federal lawsuit against Michigan State Police employees and the state's former station breath-testing provider after a drunken ...
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Most of the world is struggling to secure enough vaccines to inoculate their populations. India has the opposite problem: Plenty of shots, but a shortage of people ...
Pfizer Inc will pursue its request for India to approve its COVID-19 vaccine if the government commits to buying shots, the U.S. drugmaker told Reuters on ...
Comedian fronts a tourism board appeal for visitors to make their own discoveries instead of trying to mimic the cliched influencer images they've spotted on ...
